Fuel and electricity costs are highly visible, but under Waxman-Markey, the benefits to consumers will be mostly invisible.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
The Congressional Budget Office has not released scores on the House health care reform proposal, despite reports that it had estimated the plan would...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
The Senate Finance Committee may have announced earlier Thursday that its new health care reform package costs less than a trillion dollars over ten y...
Doug Schoen | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Rarely in Washington do you come across a moment of unequivocal bipartisan alignment, especially on an issue as polarizing as health-care reform. Today was one of them.
Geri Spieler | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics
Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot? Scary ...
tnr.com | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
Everywhere you look, health care reform seems to be chugging along. Insurers and drug companies are visiting the White House to show solidarity with P...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
We are told that poor countries will suffer if the IMF does not get a $108 billion appropriation from Congress immediately. But this is nonsense.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics
The business of making long-term projections is generally a safe one: If you wind up on the wrong end of a forecast, enough time has often passed that...
Bob Cesca | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics
Congratulations, Republicans, you just released a budget that rewards wealthy corporate executives while blocking any attempt to dig us out of the economic catastrophe they created. Smart!
Deborah Weinstein | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Short term political gain may come to some of those who rail against increased domestic spending. But the price will be a bleaker economic future for all Americans.
Kety Esquivel | Posted 04.11.2009 | Home
Catherine Singley, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Earlier this week, our friends at the Immigration...
National Journal | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
President Obama's budget has some more details--however slight--on the Chief Performance Officer's office and how it will work. Apparently:...
Saskia Sassen | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
The real challenge we face is how to switch out of the hyper-financial mode of the last two decades. It is not to rescue zombie banks.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
It will take much stronger medicine to avert a depression than the measures taken to date, and the president needs to rally public opinion if he is to persuade Congress to act at the necessary scale.
Teryn Norris | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Obama and his advisors made a critical miscalculation by allowing the political goal of bipartisanship to trump urgent economic necessity and the need for a new economic philosophy.
Thomas Frank | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics
Never has Beltway orthodoxy looked as clueless and futile as it does today.
Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.
Robert Scheer | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
The only valid criticism to be made of the stimulus bill that Obama signed Tuesday with deserved pride of authorship is that it is too small for the enormous problem at hand.
James Boyce and Paul Abrams | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
As we say on the sandlots, it's time for Boehner to put up or shut up.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media
From the commentariat to the White House chief of staff, the lesson to be learned from the last two weeks, we are told, is that the Obama administration let the Republicans frame the debate over the stimulus.
John Ridley | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Shangri-la and Brigadoon and Bipartisan. Three mythical places. One of which few Republicans have seemingly ever heard.
Dean Garfield | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business
Congress should be commended for passing a plan that has the potential to be stimulative as well as smart. Investments in IT will help lead the way to economic recovery.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
The idea the Republicans want us to believe the "economy" only includes for-profit businesses. Anything that involves investment in public agencies is, therefore, not the economy.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration has made its first serious misstep. No, it wasn't the wooing of ingrate Republicans, or the dining with clueless reactionary pundits. It is much more significant.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.
Mike Sandler | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green